Attention All Passengers : The Airlines' Dangerous Descent---And How to Reclaim Our Skies By Mcgee, William J. Publisher : Harpercollins Published Date : 2012/06 Binding : Hardcover ISBN : 9780062088376 BookWeb Price : AED 116.00 Availability Status : Our fulfillment centre has the item in stock. Usually dispatches within 3 working days. Language : English

 
Author's Note                                      ix
Acknowledgments                                    xi
Prologue: Flying Sucks                             1  (10)
    1 Sit Down and Shut Up or We'll Turn This      11 (32)
    Plane Around: Why Airline Service Has
    Collapsed and Air Rage Is Soaring
    2 What Happened to the Airlines?               43 (28)
    3 Collusion and Confusion: How Airlines        71 (16)
    Don't Play by the Rules---and How
    Passengers Pay
    4 So You Think You've Found the Lowest Fare    87 (20)
    5 A Mad Race to the Bottom: How Airlines       107(32)
    Mistreat Employees, Outsource, and Ignore
    Passengers
    6 When Your Airline Isn't Your Airline:        139(30)
    Regional Carriers Provide Lower Levels of
    Service and Safety
    7 Outrageous Outsourcing: The Single           169(30)
    Greatest Threat to Airline Safety
    8 Unsafe at Any Altitude? Facing               199(24)
    Unprecedented Dangers
    9 Threats to Survival: Why Many Air Crashes    223(24)
    Need Not Be Fatal
    10 Lights, Camera, Strip Search: The           247(22)
    Tragicomedy of Airline Security
    11 Cloudy Skies: Aviation's Carbon Footprint   269(16)
    12 Ink-Stained Wreckage: How Airlines          285(20)
    Manipulate the Media
Epilogue: Fighting the Clock                       305(2)
Conclusion: A Manifesto for Taking Back Our        307(8)
Skies
Appendix A Domestic Mainline Airline               315(1)
Partnerships with Regionals
Appendix B Domestic Regional Airline               316(1)
Partnerships with Mainlines
Glossary                                           317(2)
Selected Bibliography                              319(18)
Notes                                              337(8)
Index                                              345